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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1957
Page
9
Singapore police report detaining fifty people in island wide antisubversive raids. Authorities say the arrests target subversive elements and maintain public order.
Lester T. Land Jr. of Ford Street was injured when his car rammed a utility pole on National Highway about 1 a m. Police say Land was run off the road by two other cars before the crash. Vehicle damage estimated at 500 dollars.
Two local physicians received building permits for new projects. Dr J A Martin will build a brick block and steel 30 by 40 structure at 624 E Washington St with offices on the ground floor and a top floor apartment at an estimated cost of 15000 and start soon. Dr P P Little secured a 9700 permit for a dental office at E Washington and Hobson Alley extension, a brick one story 26 by 45 building. Brown W Fouts got a permit for a five room residence at 18,000. James E Foscue of 529 Parkway received 1200 for porch screen installation. The Wholstery Co building at 719 S Hamilton St will add a 50 by 48 brick addition for offices and showrooms and construction began yesterday.
Fred Davies of New England Industries spoke before the High Point Civitan club on industrial education in England and postwar production plans. He emphasized worker attitudes, new layouts, and cooperation between management and workers to raise efficiency.
The High Point Band Boosters Club will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Junior High Auditorium. The Junior High Band under director David Duncan will perform. President H O Williams said the meeting is open to all members and prospective members.
A 2%-year-old S. Main Street rest waining a jury trial on four charges of forgery. Ernest Phipps received the stiff sentence from Judge Walter Johnston of Winston-Salem during opening activity of the day's criminal session of Superior Court. Also getting an active sentence was Robert Hannah, a former resident of Oakwood Court Apartments here. Hannah was handed a two to three year stretch as a consolidated sentence on two motor vehicle larceny charges and one count of larceny and receiving. Judge Johnston noted the court intent is that the sentence given Hannah here should run concurrently with a three to five year term he recently received in Davidson County on an auto larceny charge. Paul Coble, 21, of Granby Street, accused of assault with a deadly weapon on Lamar Wilson of Wrenn Street, got a six month sentence suspended for three years. William Dawkins of Tate Street, charged with assault and battery on a female, had a four month jail term suspended for three years. Robert L. Loflin, 28, of Greensboro, also facing an assault and battery on female count, received a two month term suspended for two years. James E. Saulters, 33, of Edmundson Street, drew a consolidated judgment of six months.
Greensboro and High Point municipal workers receive 750 Asian flu vaccine doses at Guilford County health department. Priority given to city and county workers. welfare cases follow with teachers next. Dose is tenth of a cc, given under skin with a second shot three weeks later.
Oak View Volunteer Fire Department held its annual election last night electing J. E. Talley as president and W. D. Dawkins as vice president. John Blair was chosen secretary and Dewey Bodenheimer treasurer with Howard Lambe Dewey Linville and Stanley Hayworth named to the executive board. Captains were W. D. Dawkins Dewey Bodenheimer and Dewey Linville.
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt will fly to Yalta to meet Nikita Khrushchev who has invited her to visit him at his vacation site. The trip highlights postwar diplomacy and Soviet leadership outreach.
An estimate states that half of all infants die from malaria among the 3 million nomadic Kurds traversing Turkey Iraq Iran and Syria. Separately the Swiss town of Leuk was destroyed by three avalanches but now guards against recurrence with a solid embankment.
In Park Hills Kentucky a city pamphlet given with paid traffic fines stresses that fines are not about revenue. It notes the warning that “The man who is fined today may not run into you tomorrow.”
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